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19.1 Vocab

Team, New Chapter = New Vocab List.  Let’s get at it! 

  1. Natural Resources: things that are found in nature (water, gold, oil, trees)
  2. Petroleum: a liquid that can be turned into oil.
  3. Improve: make something better
  4. Entrepreneur: a person who starts a new business.
  5. Opportunity: Chance
  6. Bridge: a structure that connects two places.
  7. Rust: when iron turns red from water.
  8. Crack: break
  9. Flexible: able to bend
  10. Purify: Clean
  11. Produce: make
  12. Method: a way
  13. Impure: not clean or dirty
  14. Plant: a large factory
  15. Laborer: Worker
  16. Industry: Business
  17. Immigrant: a person who moves from one country to another
  18. Inexpensive: cheap or not expensive
  19. Suspension bridge: a bridge with wires, chains and 2 towers
  20. Skyscrapers: very tall buildings found in the city.
  21. Stories: levels
  22. Material: what something is made from
  23. Generous: Gives out a lot of money
  24. Rapidly: quickly

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